Francisci Hotomani iurisconsulti observationum liber IIII

...and pettifoggers: with the greatest ruin of the youth and the plague of good minds, such that they think this discipline should be drawn not from the clearest fountains of the iurisconsulti legal experts, but from the filthiest puddles of the Sophists, and that they seek praise from the heaped-up allegations of many others. As if those men were so great among us that their authority would be valid even without reason; or as if one ought not to teach why each thing is of such legal standing by arguments and reasons rather than by testimonies and authorities. Proceed, therefore, most illustrious youth, to hold to the end that path of our Law upon which you have entered with me as your guide and author. This discipline is laborious and difficult. There are many thickets, many thorns, many brambles. Who would deny it? But it is a sign of ignorance to demand that you achieve what many may envy and many may seek, without any labor. Obey the counsel of your most prudent and generous parent, and strive to respond to the expectation of you conceived by him and your other relatives. You have a domestic example of virtue.